Quote from: SailorMars1994 on September 27, 2017, 05:59:00 PM
I agree that being LGBT we should NOT be beholded to a single ideology or political party. Often on this form and others you will see a couple people bash conservatism for all our ills when that is a broad brush. Much like being transgender, conservatism finds itself on a long spectrum. It may suprise people to know that I hold a few (and just a few) conservative ideas. I think that your background should not define your role in society or political beliefs. When I hear of a gay or trans conservative I sometimes find myself being in that boat of not agreeing with them all the time, but at the same time seeing it as somewhat of a breath of fresh air from the normal far left SJW echo chamber I have seen in which I doubt many of those people are expressing real opinions but just repeating to be part of the ''group''.
Thats being said if I had been an American I would likely vote Democrat 85% of the time. I'm sorry and I may even get smitted or what not but I find that the national GOP's platform is very much pandering to votes at our expense. Whereas the national Democrats by and large have been fighting for us hard. At a state level , depending on certain states if I were to live in one I could swing between the two parties. For what it is worth over the few things I do know I can say I do like Republican Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Phil Scott of Vermont seem to be reasonable and sound. I havent been keeping up with the Governor from Illinois but when I last read about him years ago (a Republican) he seemed ok. I could very well support them. Even though I find myself disagreeing with Senators John McCain and Lisa Murkowski at times I do repsect them both and could, if conditions were right support them.Same with Susan Collins.
Often when I rant or express my feelings, at least on American politics people think I would make a partisan Democrat when that isnt true at all and in fact, I wouldn't want to be. Infact had I been an American I would love to be able to freely vote for either party over certian issues of the day that affect me without worry of one party expecting I support them because its now a ''duty'' and the other trying to paint me with a bad brush to juice up their base. Issue is with the exception of some Governorship and maybe the odd Senate seat there is a staunch divide on making an election issue out of us which needs to be called out. Not to shine the Democrats as better but to express that we are real people and one day, hopefully soon have both parties in that country see us as equals.
Never apologize for your beliefs. I am a Log Cabin Republican but a registered Independent and feel really good having my Second Amendment Rights. But in actuality I am a Libertarian. I actually voted for Bill Clinton twice. Voting is a right and you should vote not by how anyone tells you but the candidate that you think will do the best job for your interests.
I am trans and big deal but one party will never own my vote. I can also make fun of myself too. Have you ever seen a redneck trans woman? Most people haven't yet I am one. I can actually laugh about it and even make others laugh. I think this is the whole idea of what Milo is doing.
To be completely honest I do not want or need friends that feel sorry for me and maybe because it is the in thing to do, be friends with the trans woman to seem.... Cosmopolitan? Accepting? I would rather have no friends than those type of friends.
I have friends in my own little world and they are friends with me not because I am trans but I am there for them in need and vice versa. We can joke and toke and sometimes they have some really legitimate questions about me. I am honest and compassionate in that they may not understand but I can't really understand being cis either. I am a straight trans woman, I like guys and one question I used to get asked is if I am Gay. My answer was always no. Then another question of how if I had a penis and my answer was that I experience relationships and love different and on a female level in the mind.
In short, people will respect you if you are honest and can even laugh at yourself. Those that can't laugh at themselves then I don't even want to be friends with. I go shopping with my cis female neighbors and my boyfriends wives and sometimes even co workers that are women and we do the women's things together and we have girl's nights. My BF does the same thing with my male neighbors and so on. We are always invited to each others homes and so on for whatever reasons. I did not need a politician for that. My boyfriend makes no excuses and he is accepted as a man and fishes and hunts with my neighbor's husbands. He has come home from deer camp and told me who asked him what and sometimes it is about being in a "relationship" with a transwoman. He always poses the question back and the answers are the same for both. Don't need a politician for that either. The answers are we bitch too much, complain while vacuuming the floors and when asked to get them something we tell them to get it themselves. I can laugh at that. I can also laugh at being terrified of thunderstorms and hurricanes.
But get out of that dear because both parties pander and neither one really cares for nothing other than your vote. Obama and Hillary both were against Same Sex Marriage until they needed votes. I remember when they stated it during Prop 8 in California about marriage being between one man and one woman.
But we are lucky in the United States because we have the Constitution and that is mostly about freedoms and pertains to everyone now. Yes Slavery was a hiccup but that was amended to where we all have the same rights. In the United States the Constitution is the law of the land, not whatever political party holds the majority. I have a CCW and I pack a .380 in my purse. For home I have a 9mm so I will vote politicians that will allow me to protect myself. And yes I have been profiled before just for having long hair and wearing no makeup and to be completely honest, and the cops should have known but they have been very respectful asking me how I preferred to be addressed. As a matter of fact my boyfriend now is a cop and we go to all the cop functions and parties. I get to go to the range for free anytime I want because I am his SO. And let me tell you something, with the way the world views cops now it scares me ->-bleeped-<-less when he goes to work. I am his beneficiary on his life insurance and I can even be on his health insurance policy but choose not to be. So it really isn't a left or right deal, it is more of a people deal.
My boyfriend is a cop and when he goes to work I pray. I am not even a Christian but I pray. Most of his friends are cops to and they have asked his some really stupid questions but the single ones tell him if he ever leaves me I am fair game so... These are cops for Christ's sake and all supposed to be on the right yet they respect me as a woman and their wives and husbands do too and him for dating me?
So between our neighbors and he lives with me and his co workers I am accepted. I am not that beautiful or the most girly figured woman but my BF claims to love me for me and vice versa and I even smoke a little and one thing that I have learned is not to smoke and then drive or have a little too much on me if pulled over. Most cops smell pot a lot but don't say boo about it unless you have a bad attitude.
As for my boyfriend, I don't care who he votes for, I just want him to come home at the end of his shift or well I work from home so I am always here mostly. Look Cops wear blue but they also encompass the "rainbow". Out of 20 three are L and two are G and one is even T with cross dressing. My boyfriend don't know that though and I would never tell. But I still want him to come home safe though.
So don't be fooled by politicians because politics should not be an issue in your life, your life should so vote your conscience. You will never get smited by me. I love my boyfriend well... think I do anyway or feel I do and he don't even know how I voted.
Jesus, I talk too much. But anyways
